Lisa Fain > Quotes

“Self-awareness— understanding our own motivations, our strengths and challenges—is the key to getting ready to mentor.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“It is the mentor’s responsibility to create a safe and trusting space that enables a mentee to stretch and step outside their comfort zone, take risks, and show up authentically.”
― Lisa Fain, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

“We often meet someone and think they are “different” but people are not inherently different: our differences lie between us, not within us.”
― Lisa Fain, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

“When we understand and appreciate the differences between us, we can leverage them to improve our conversations, deepen our learning, and spur creative thinking.”
― Lisa Fain, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

“Building a bridge requires the help of other people. It is an active process involving connections, bonding, and collaboration; working together, we build a newer and richer mutual understanding.”
― Lisa Fain, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

“An effective mentoring relationship requires that each partner understand something about the other person’s generational context and yet not make “generationalizations.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“One of the most beneficial aspects of mentoring is its inherent reciprocity. When reciprocity is present, both mentor and mentee fully engage in the relationship.”
― Lisa Fain, Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring: Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage

“BREAKFAST TACOS ARE A TEXAS TRADITION, and in the morning you find them all over the state, at taco stands, gas stations, small town cafés, and even in people’s homes.”
― Lisa Fain, The Homesick Texan's Family Table: Lone Star Cooking from My Kitchen to Yours [A Cookbook]

“When we fail to differentiate between self and other in a mentoring relationship, we run the risk of projecting our own lived experience onto our mentee.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships

“To realize value, mentoring partners must create relationships where both mentor and mentee can show up fully and authentically.”
― Lisa Fain, The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships